[TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread Steve Rhodes
No details, just a tweet and a headline at http://www.thewrap.com -- Steve Rhodes http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos http://twitter.com/tigerbeat -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group.

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread PGage
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steve Rhodes srho...@gmail.com wrote: No details, just a tweet and a headline at http://www.thewrap.com Wow - I had the upper limit at 20M. They must have been even more worried about being found in breech than I thought - though I wonder if the staff's

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread Steve Rhodes
Still nothing added to the story and no other sites confirming that I can find Conan and Andy won't be in San Francisco on Sunday http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_14202358 -- Steve Rhodes http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos http://twitter.com/tigerbeat -- TV or Not TV The

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:07 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steve Rhodes srho...@gmail.com wrote: No details, just a tweet and a headline at http://www.thewrap.com Wow - I had the upper limit at 20M. They must have been even more worried about being

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread Steve Rhodes
The story has been updated (though there currently is almost nothing on the 2nd page) mostly incorporating material from the now vanished earlier story http://www.thewrap.com/article/breaking-nbc-pay-conan-30m-13048 Other sites are now linking to the Wrap story, but still no other

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread PGage
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be surprised (of course, a lot of this has been a surprise) if NBC offered severance to the crew of a cancelled TV series. I seem to recall TNT did something along those lines when Robert Urich was diagnosed with

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread Steve Rhodes
Bill Carter is more cautious http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/obrien-nbc-are-close-to-a-deal-for-his-departure/ Sent from my iPhone -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread Steve Rhodes
Rachel Sklar posts Bill Carter's 2004 article on Conan taking over from Leno in 2009 with certain lines highlighted http://www.mediaite.com/print/the-way-we-were-revisiting-the-conan-leno-swap-in-2004/ -- Steve Rhodes http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos http://twitter.com/tigerbeat -- TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC to pay Conan $30 million

2010-01-15 Thread Steve Rhodes
Zucker's NBC spin puts it at $25 million. But it's a lot closer to $40 million than $25 million, my insider says. And Conan was adamant that NBC take care of the people close to him -- [executive producer] Jeff Ross and the staff who moved out to Los Angeles... This is that Ron Meyer-negotiated